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Slight inspiration from Croft depot maybe? This could be very nice, and like you I'm a great fan of micro layouts. Hope to see this evolve??

 

Cheers

Simon

It's a bit like a mini-Catcott with the crossing and halt. I have the C&L track and one of the fiddle yards.....

I hate bare baseboards, with micro layouts that stage in minimal. To me railway modelling is more about capturing a slice of railway atmosphere than anything else. Actually a Class 25 on some 'hoods could look quite good on this.

Like the look of this Chris - Keep them coming, I'm trying to come up with something similar to this/Croft Depot for my P4 tester layout.

Good luck John, a great way to test out something different that's a bit more than a length od ballasted track. Also a good way to get a usuable result which will most likely be finished. I think too many people decide to try out the finer track gauges and end up being archairr modellers because they set themselves too many mountainous problems. Much better to know that you built something albeit small that works rather than being a bore than never does anything. Good luck - race you?

Haven't you forgotten the water feature Chris?

 

Geoff.

Very much like the Catcott and I would like to do something similar myself so can one dare to ask which member of the 'popular press' this will be?

I was a bit worried when I read 'I'll shoot myself' thought perhaps it was all getting too much then I realised you meant the photo. Set this in spring when the primroses are out those cornish hedges often have them all along the bottom. This would make a great project in 7mm. Ideal to show off all the kits I haven't built yet.

Don

Here he goes again! Rubs hands with glee, looking forward to more inspirational work.

What happened to the collery layout you started Chris?

Also was that chain on the Ambis stand any finer that I mentioned at Scaleforum?

Popular press - Mode Rail of course - the mag with the biggest workbench section of any mag in the UK - you must know that of course It's the only one I do stuff for these days, along with all the layout photography.

 

The colliery is a 'proper layout', well in the view of my wife's eyes, and until I convert the garage I'm not allowed to do anymore layouts (I pushed it with BQ) . I've Combwich, Catcott, Cement Quay + bit on the side and Brewhouse Quay 'stored' in the guest room. She has a point I guess! This one being only 3x1 won't be noticed - I hope! "It's not a layout, it's a diorama (which so happens to work)".

 

Popping out shortly to grab some timber for the 5mm foam core sub base to sit on (I'll use that instead of cork seeing I have many sheets of it). The illustration above is in fact a heavily Photoshopped overhead photo of the foam core base which has the trackplan and main features drawn onto it. I hope to have baseboards done by 2pm today.

 

Looking ahead, I might use a GWR corrugated pagoda for the platform shelter, but repaint it in faded Southern Region colours as with Dunmere Halt. The whole cameo (hey, that's another name I can give it rather than layout) will have a a neglected look about it (that's new), but no water feature this time.

 

WS - finer chain, thanks but I didn't bother in the end, but I did spend a small fortune on 3 links. The chain looks much finer in real life, especially since I finally found my chemical blackener on Sunday.

 

I love these animated GIF moodicons or whatever they're called....

Ooooh - like the look of this! The arrangement of buildings on the right is a bit like Helland Bridge, but even better with a pub. Could you not squeeze a little stream in from behind the buildings, under the road & yard access & out through the pasture?

Strictly speaking, the Wenford lin only used 08 shunters, but given my liking for 25s I'll forgive you (and a class 22 D63xx would look good too....)

You just couldn't get rid of them could you

I have very BIG rose tinted glasses

You have done it again and inspired me to get on with my own project.

 

Terry

 

(note to self must shake this man's hand.)